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Red Dwarf

Epideme (Part 1 of 2) (#707)

While checking out a lifeless vessel, the crew find a female human body encased in ice and emitting very faint life signs. When her body comes to life in the middle of the night and snogs Lister before collapsing, it appears the only life signs the crew had really registered had been those of the virus inside her body, the virus which is now happily consuming Lister.

Program Description: Red Dwarf is an enormous spaceship, mining around the moons of Saturn with a crew of 169 members. Before the end of the first episode, 168 of them are dead, wiped out by massive radiation leak, and it's all downhill from here on…
The rest of the series takes place three million years into the future, as the ship meanders along, lost in the heart of deep space. The sole surviving member of the whole human race is Lister, inventor of the fried-egg-and-chilli-pickle sandwich and most likely the scruffiest, smelliest individual ever to grace the universe. Fortunately, for the sake of what little sanity he possesses, he is not entirely alone -- although he would probably prefer to be.

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